I actually kinda randomly bought one.
I was looking through my Detroit auto show pictures from earlier that year (2013- I was 24 at the time) and thought "I could see myself with that car"
I had NO intentions of buying a Camaro until that point. I went to GM's website and didn't know they started around 20K. My dad works for GM so that helped too. I was thinking of maybe buying one in 2014...UNTIL I saw the design change for that year. I wanted a '13 since I liked the body better, so I went to the dealer fully expecting to get the runaround.
It turned out perfect. I ended up paying what I thought and ended up with a much better finance rate since I've had good credit since high school. I waited and ordered it how I wanted on the last day for the '13s.
I got the 1LS with stripes. I'm glad I did because if I had the V8 it and/or me might be dead by now!